[Info-vax] HP Integrity rx2800 i4 (2.53GHz/32.0MB) :: PAKs won't load

[David Froble]

lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:54:00 +0000
> Kerry Main via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
> 
>> The competition in the future and has been for the last 10+ years is not 
>> Solaris, AIX, z/OS etc, (DEC/Compaq/HP market positioning) but rather 
>> commodity OS's like Linux/Windows. This is especially true when VMS is
>> being sold on the same server X86-64 architecture as Windows/Linux.
> 
> This is what I have been saying. Everybody may as well turn out the lights
> and go home. Nobody is going to pay $$$$$ for VMS when they can get nothing
> and like it with Linux.

Well, it's not free, if you need support.  How many sites are using Linux and 
such commercially without support?

It's a different world, expensive licenses are not such an easy sell anymore. 
Has nothing to do with the hardware.

As has been pointed out many times, capital purchases and operations costs are 
two different things, one is hard to get, the other is many times trivial to get.